The Art of Education Examination of the 7

The Art of Education Examination of the 7 Liberal Arts

What are the 7 Liberal Arts? 1. Grammar The Trivium 2. Logic 3. Rhetoric 4. Arithmetic 5. Geometry The Quadrivium 6. Music 7. Astronomy

Robert Fludd (1574 – 1637)

Microscopes: 1665 Robert Hooke; 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek.

Why the term “Liberal”? Latin root for ‘liberal’ is: Liberatus = freedom; condition of a free man. Liberal arts - to form a system of thinking that allowed you to educate yourself. Compare Liberal arts to Servile and Fine arts

Education Latin educum = to lead, let out, reveal. Occult Latin occulere = to hide, keep secret, conceal. Education = the act or process of imparting or acquiring knowledge, developing the process of reasoning and judgment and in general preparing oneself* intellectually for a mature life. *or others

The Trivium 1. Grammar Discovering and ordering facts of reality; provides a basic, systematic Knowledge. e. g. Words, syntax, details.

2. Logic Developing the faculty of reason in establishing valid relationships among facts, forming systematic Understanding. The art of non-contradictory identification. e. g. Definitions to follow the ‘story’ or directions.

3. Rhetoric The art of speaking or writing persuasively. It is systematically useable knowledge and understanding that generates Wisdom. e. g. Now explain this to yourself and others.

The Mathematical Theory of Communicatio Grammar Rhetoric Logic Stimulus Response Thinking* ‘Freedom’ exits in this Choice

Ignorance = a state of being un-informed. From ignore; information may have been presented yet it has been ignored or denied in terms of incorporation into the world view or perception of an individual. Nescient = not knowing. Due to never having been exposed to the information. Naive = having or showing a lack of experience, judgment or information.

Fig. 1. Shows the myopic decline in Media Ownership. Source: Ben Bagdikian's "The New Media Monopoly", originally published in 1992, revised in 2004.

The term ‘Propaganda’ was modified to ‘Public Relations’ by Edward Burnays

Fallacy – an error in our thinking process. Common Fallacious Arguments • Ad Hominem - Character assassination. e. g. • False Dichotomy – False dilemma, either-or. e. g. • If-by-Whiskey Fallacy – to argue either ‘side’ depending on audience: e. g. 1) poisonous devil’s brew… 2) puts a song in our hearts & laughter on lips…

• Ad Verecundiam - Appeal to Authority. e. g. • Cum Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - False Cause or Circular Consequence. e. g.

According to Bill Gates: Overpopulation is the main reasons for starvation. However, according to the World Food Program, the list of key causes of world hunger are the following: 1) War – Destroys crops and relief efforts. 2) Poverty – Prevents many from purchasing what is available. 3) Lack of Infrastructure – No reliable way to transport food to areas that need it. Note: Overpopulation is not on this list.

Eating fat makes you fat and increases your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Comparison of Molecules (120 Kcal each) Glucose 2 slices of bread. Sucrose 1 glass of orange juice. Ethanol 1 shot of bourbon.

Glucose Sucrose Ethanol 1 glass of orange juice 1 shot of bourbon Starch => glucose 60 kcal glucose + 60 kcal fructose CNS Depressant ~96 kcal used by all cells in body ~48 kcal used by all cells in body ~24 kcal hits Liver for Metabolism ~72 kcal hits Liver for Metabolism ~96 kcal hits Liver for Metabolism 2 slices of bread Glucose-6 -℗ Makes Glycogen ~0. 5 kcal used for de novo Lipogenesis ↑ Insulin Inhibits Ghrelin Glucose-6 -℗ ↑ Aldehydes ↑ Uric acid ↑ VLDL + ↓NO = ↑BP ↑ de novo Lipogenesis No effect on Ghrelin ↑ Aldehydes ↑ Acetate, ↑ Citrate ↑ VLDL ↑ de novo Lipogenesis Dislipidemia ↑ Insulin resistance

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) is the Answer to World Hunger. Both Genetically Engineered Seeds and Herbicides Pose Significant Risks to the Environment and Human Health. e. g. “Seeds of Deception”, by Jeffery Smith (2003).

Grammar the thing as-it-is-symbolized. Answers the: Who, What, Where, and When. Logic the thing as-it-is-known. Answers the: Why of a subject. Rhetoric the thing as-it-is-communicated. Answers the: How of a subject.

Schooling ≠ Education John Taylor Gatto: The 7 Lessons I teach. (1990 NY State School teacher of the year; Author) 1. CONFUSION - I teach the un-relating of everything… 2. CLASS POSITION - If I do my job well, the kids envy and fear the better classes and have contempt for the dumb classes. 3. INDIFFERENCE - The lesson of the bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything. They must turn on and off like a light switch. 4. EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY - By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors and disgraces I teach kids to surrender their will to the predestined chain of command. Individuality is a curse to all systems of classification.

Schooling ≠ Education John Taylor Gatto: The 7 Lessons I teach. (1990 NY State School teacher of the year; Author) 5. INTELLECTUAL DEPENDENCY - Good people wait for an expert to tell them what to do. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that our entire economy depends upon this lesson being learned. 6. PROVISIONAL SELF-ESTEEM - you know how impossible it is to make selfconfident spirits conform. Our world wouldn't survive a flood of confident people very long, so I teach that your self-respect should depend on expert opinion. My kids are constantly evaluated and judged. 7. ONE CAN'T HIDE - I teach children they are always watched, that each is under constant surveillance by myself and my colleagues. There are no private spaces for children, there is no private time.

Left Brain Functions Right Brain Functions Logic Feeling Detail Big Picture Facts Imagination Words and Language Symbols and Images Present and Past Present and Future Math and Science Philosophy and Spirituality Acknowledges Appreciates Order/pattern perception Spatial perception Knows object name Knows object function Reality based Fantasy based Forms strategies Presents possibilities Practical (safe) Impetuous (risks)

Schooling ≠ Education

Double Think

…now for the Quadrivium!

“Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer’s keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and illtreated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. ” Nikola Tesla, 1905.

1. Grammar The Trivium 2. Logic 3. Rhetoric 4. Arithmetic 5. Geometry The Quadrivium 6. Music 7. Astronomy

QUADRIVIUM Arithmetic - Number in itself. Geometry - Number in space. Music (or Harmonics Theory) - Number in time. Astronomy (or Cosmology) - Number in space and time.

Pythagoras Theorem

Pythagoras Theorem Sensory Perception Trivium Quadrivium The lowest series of whole numbers to express Pythagoras’ Theorem = 3, 4 and 5. These numbers had important significant meaning in the “Pythagorean Brotherhood”. The 3 tenants of the Trivium. The 4 numeric quantities of the Quadrivium. The 5 senses used to perceive the natural physical world.

Platonic Solids

Fractal Geometry Euclidean Geometry (integer dimensions), described in lines, ellipses, circles. Fractal Geometry (non-integer dimensions) described in algorithims.

The Golden Ratio phi

The golden ratio (1: j, or 1: 1. 618) also relates to the golden spiral and the golden rectangle.

Golden Ratio Examples in Human Anatomy The Vetruvian Man expressed the Canon of Proportions drawn after the Roman architect Vitruvius (born c. 70 BC).

Golden Ratio Examples in Human Anatomy

Golden Spiral - Fibonacci Sequence

The Golden Rectangle - the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio. Ancient architects believed this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing.

The image shows the proportions of the orbit of the Earth and Venus. If the diameter of the Earth's orbit is equal to the diagonal of a square, the orbit of Venus would fit inside such square as shown in the drawing.

Music The science and art of tones or musical sounds. Sounds of higher or lower pitch, from uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension. The science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other

Pitch is based primarily on the frequency of vibration *Currently 440 Hz is concert A. Prior to the 17 th century, it was 432 Hz.

In music, longer lengths produce lower pitches, and shorter lengths make higher pitches. *Place your finger on the string so that only 3/4 of that string vibrates, guitar will play the pitch called F. What pitch will you hear if you allow 3/5 of that string to vibrate? Harmonic Ratio

Cymatics Experiments icosahedron Sound, vibration and physical matter

Masaru Emoto’s Water Experiments 'Thank you' Kawachi Folk Dance Heavy Metal Music

String Theory The smallest “fundamental particles” have little strings that can vibrate in different patterns. So the difference between one particle and another is simply the note that its string is playing.

Astronomy – the study of celestial objects

Apparent path of the sun as seen from earth Schumann Resonance

A cycle of approximately 26, 000 years is a Great or Platonic Year in astrology.

‘The Impact of Science on Society’ (1951) by Bertrand Russell. p 50, the intended role of education: “Education should aim at destroying free will so that after the pupils have left school they shall be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished” Frederick Douglass “I found that to make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision and as far as possible to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery, he must be made to feel that slavery is right and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man. ”